“In the end it didn’t pass because we’re so politicized. There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it,” Toomey admitted on Tuesday in an interview with Digital First Media editors in the offices of the Times Herald newspaper in Norristown, Pa.

As usual, this honest remark contradicts Toomey’s comment just last week, in which he placed most of the blame on the president himself, telling the Morning Call, “I would suggest the administration brought this on themselves. I think the president ran his re-election campaign in a divisive way. He divided Americans. He was using resentment of some Americans toward others to generate support for himself.” “I would suggest the administration brought this on themselves. I think the president ran his re-election campaign in a divisive way. He divided Americans. He was using resentment of some Americans toward others to generate support for himself.”

It’s worth noting that, even though he knew that those on his side “did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it,” he calculatingly accused the president of being “divisive” and of creating and taking advantage of generating resentment to earn a political advantage.

To make matters worse, Senator Toomey is considered a moderate in the Republican Party, underscoring the sobering reality that there are no Republicans too moderate to not invent awful things about President Obama out of sheer political necessity.

The silver lining for progressives is that the bill is still available right now and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid does have the power to bring the vote up at any time. Although he needs five senators to change their vote, Senators Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), and other lawmakers who voted to filibuster the universal background checks legislation have seen clear drops in their poll numbers since they betrayed their constituents.

Sen. Toomey, on the other hand, has seen his poll numbers rise as a result of his brave stand against the NRA and most of the GOP establishment.

While Toomey admitted it’s all about politics for the GOP, watch a video of what President Obama thinks it’s all about:

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